A redundant “of“ in all kinds of locutions popular among the baseball crowd some forty (or more) years ago surfaced on TV broadcasts and started the plague:
....it won’t be that long of a speech, tha…
“You told me you would drive me to the concert” or “You told me you will drive me to the concert”?
“I just said I was a writer” or “I just said I am a writer”?
Yesterday I took a cab back to the hote…
I would like to gain practical experience as an intern at your company
You don’t really want to be an experienced apprentice at XYZ or elsewhere, do you?
Get rid of “as an intern”; they’ll know what…
It was really more of a comment than a question. Read: …a comment rather than a question.
Jet travel has made moving from place to place less of an ordeal. Read: …easier.
Getting tickets for Tuesday …
Here is what I mean:
Jesli chce zapytac jak duzo ziemniakow zjesz a one sa mashed to co mam zrobic? How much or how many? How will the language respond to that trap?
Opening the crisper in the fridge…
The essence of the issue is how the language would react with much or many to the mash with plural verb.
What do you mean?
too much car or too much of a car for Grandma?
“…too much of a car” is a …
(Being friends is) more than just a (whole) lot.
Keep it simple. Less is more. No men’s locker-room parlance. No bad asses. And no big things either.
Two mash(ed) potatoes is a lot of mash(ed) pot…
No such doctors in the States :)
"Pigs can fly" is a licit generic sentence.
A doctor/doctors must like people is a very general statement…
That’s what generic statements are all about.
I…
I'm wondering about "the readers". It seems to me that it might work too (meaning that we're talking about a specific group of readers - those who will read the sentence). Please…
I am looking for a new family doctor The doctor must like children, otherwise it won't work.
Czyli musisz miec zdanie wprowadzajace.
That doesn’t work either. Here “the doctor” refers to an i…
Pytanie czy w pierwszym zdaniu The doctor też byłoby ok?
If it is a stand-alone sentence, I say no.
For a sentence to be interpreted as generic, the mandatory reference set to be characterized over…
In British English (and nowhere else?), when classes stop at schools or colleges, you could say “We break up for holidays.”
Everywhere else (?) we break for lunch or the summer (vacation), and have …
Witam
Pisze tutaj bo nie wiem co jest źle w tym zdaniu:
It was used to dissuade the presumed interactant who has a different opinion from the speaker.
Czy potrzebna jest inna forma gramatyczna?
The g…
Stars of The Night, czy The Stars of The Night?
If you mean to write about those who star in a specific gala (concert or show, or a series of such occasions), then definitely “The Stars of the Night…
First say "a wave of fear" in a reasonable sentence. Then you could reduce it to a "fear wave" for short in the following articulations if you really want to.…
Pytanie jak w temacie.
Czy macie jakieś ulubione aplikacje mobilne do nauki angielskiej gramatyki, z których najczęściej korzystacie?
You mean those that can walk?…
Poznaję język angielski rekreacyjnie our own.
Don't (recreate yourself excessively). Study your own.
"Translator tłumaczy to samo - You are very good, dla liczby mnogiej i poj. Ewentualnie …
Yes, we can say “I am being hungry.”
Back to Mustang15 and “in case of”:
It is a subordinating conjunction functioning in compound sentences, and as such it is meant to join clauses: it introduces th…
Functions (expressions, relations, dependencies...) have shapes and they behave. Graphs show their (general, global. or local) shape or behavior. (When analyzed, they can turn out to be well-behaved …
As, when used as a subordinating conjunction in a complex sentence (to introduce a temporal clause) means while, at the same time, not when. When is special, because when can do and often does more:…
I saw the pilot eject.
The pilot was seen eject. Not OK.
The pilot was seen to eject.
I saw the pilot be ejected. Not OK.
The pilot was seen to be ejected.
I was seeing the pilot eject.
The pilot …
I went to the barbershop yesterday. On my way home I stumbled and twisted my ankle. I had my hair trimmed, face shaved, and ankle twisted.
I went to the barbershop yesterday. On my way home I stumble…
Dziękuję :)
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(1) Don’t get near that dog. It will bite you.
(2) Don’t get near that dog. It is going to bite you.
What’s the difference? The dog's will differs from the dog's plan?…
The adverbial "the" (always) precedes a comparative. Your "in order to" is purposive and implies no comparison.
https://i.imgur.com/OOrJmu8.png
In vitium ducit culpae fuga,…
Czy zdanie:
The more easily to induce witnesses to testify, we are conducting our hearings in private.
jest parafrazą zdania:
In order to more easily induce witnesses to testify, we are conducting ou…